Farming

Now Comes the Hard Part

Dr. Neema Mduma was poised and confident as ever when Grow Further checked in with her recently. As one of the first recipients of a
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Africa

Tanzania’s maize craze

Tanzania is famous for some spectacular tourist attractions: Zanzibar, Mt. Kilimanjaro, the Rift Valley, and the African Great Lakes. Tanzanian food is not as well
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Farming

Smartphone Apps for Smallholders: What’s Really Useful?

Two years ago, partners in Zambia launched “Maano” or the Virtual Farmers Market, a smartphone application that’s supposed to link small-scale farmers with produce buyers
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Bambara Ground-What?

Throughout Africa and Asia, small-scale farmers have been quietly tending to this crop for generations, yet most have never heard of it. It’s highly nutritious,
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Grow Further at the Borlaug Dialogue

Kicking off the discussion, Donald Summers invited Grow Further chair Peter Kelly to share how the idea for Grow Further first came about. Kelly said
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Africa

Meet Our First Grant Recipients

It’s been a long, tough, but carefully plotted journey for Grow Further on our mission to transform the way agricultural research and development is funded.
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Africa

Innovative Finance for Innovative Research: How We Got Here

In late 2020, this author sat down for a Zoom interview with Peter Kelly, founder and CEO of Grow Further. Back then, Peter was forging
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Africa

Toward a More Nutritious Chickpea

Most modern crops are much more palatable and high yielding than their wild ancestors–the wild ancestor of maize, for instance, looks more like grass than
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